Thursday, 21 September 2017

The rush to a nuclear deal with Iran has left human rights
issues sidelined. Few people in the West seem to care. They just want to ensure
that Tehran does not develop a nuclear capability. This aim is understandable
but it leaves Iran’s political prisoners, torture victims and persecuted ethnic
minorities with little hope of any respite.

A crack epidemic is devastating the poverty-stricken Arab
Al-Ahwaz region of Iran, with credible reports suggesting that the regime’s
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) are behind the manufacture and
distribution of the deadly and highly addictive opiate in the region.

Activists in the Ahwazi region have circulated images of
what they call an environmental tragedy affecting the area.

The Ahwazi Arabs live in southern Iran. Activists in the
Ahwazi region have circulated images of what they call an environmental tragedy
affecting the area, including the Falahiyeh wetlands, which are vital for the
livelihood of thousands of Ahwazis.

Iranian security forces arrested dozens of Arab activists
and citizens in Ahwaz to prevent marches and celebrations during Eid al-Adha,
the Ahwaz Human Rights Organization (AHRO) said in a statement which
Al-Arabiya.net received a copy of.

On 16 August 2017, Iran and China met in a joint Economic
Commission to discuss China's role in acquiring oil reserves in the Al-Ahwaz
region of Iran, which is home to millions of indigenous Ahwazi Arabs. Despite
living in one of the most oil rich regions of Iran, the indigenous people
continues to live in poverty and fear of persecution under the Iranian regime.
There is concern that China's intervention will continue to ignore or even
worsen the ethnic discrimination and poverty faced by Ahwazi Arabs. This
concern is reinforced by the Iranian government’s refusal to consider the
region’s parliamentary representatives’ appeal for the contracts with China to
include redistribution of oil revenue to the Ahwazi.

Thursday, 11 August 2016

Iranian authorities must immediately put a halt to the
execution of Kurdish political and faith prisoners, X human rights
organizations stated. These organizations also urged an immediate moratorium on
the death penalty and a right to due process and a fair and public retrial for
all prisoners sentenced to death.

Friday, 27 May 2016

Ismaiel Shawardi (Khanafrah), 30, married, from Falahiya, and a worker at Shadegan municipality set himself on fire on 27 May 2016 after being denied salary for six continuous months.

Ismaiel Shawardi, 30

The sole breadwinner was under enormous financial pressure and could not provide for his family. He and other workers went on strike over late payments but to no avail as officials refused to meet them. He can be seen in the picture below holding a banner which reads:"We, the municipality workers, demand

Younes Asakereh, 34, an Ahwazi Arab street vendor from Mohammara (Khoramshahr) set himself on fire on March 13, 2015, to protest municipal authorities’ removal and destruction of his fruit stand. His death triggered massive protests thorough the province.Omid Rashdi Amir, 36, from Khalafiya (Ramshir) died on 23 September 2015 after setting himself ablaze inside the trade union building after being sacked

Mahdi Mojaddam, 32, from Chahar Sad Dastgah, Ahwaz, died on 16 April 2011 of self-immolation outside the governor-general office, he passed two days later.﻿Hassan Salemi, from Ahwaz, married with one child killed end his life because of unemployment and poverty.
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Teenager from Maashour,

cut his wrist next to his late father’s

grave because of extreme

poverty and deprivation.

4 October 2015, a teenager from Maashour, cut his wrist next to his late father’s grave because of extreme poverty and deprivation.Hamid Sharifi from Ain2, Ahwaz, hanged himself on 10 September 2014 because have had no source of income.Mortada Haydari, 17, killed himself on 4 May 2015 because of poverty and unemployment. Mahdi Afrawi, vendor at Naderi street, died on 1 May after throwing herself in front of train to protest his stall's confiscation by the authorities as he and his family had no other source of income